Welsh Journals

FURTHER NOTES ON THE PARISH OF LLANMEREWIG. By the Rev. BASIL EVAN JONES, M.A., Curate, 1912-14. THE writer had one of the twelve copies of the Article entitled A History of the Parish of Llanmerewig," reprinted for the Authors from Montgomeryshire Collections, Volume XXXV, bound and interleaved and the present contribution is one consisting of the notes entered upon the interleaves. They should therefore be studied with pp. 81-128 of that Volume open alongside, and the page references are to it, unless another book is mentioned. In the course of seven years, during two of which the writer has been officially connected with the Parish, fresh material has arisen, and in some cases views have had to be modified in the light of experience. Montgomeryshire Collections, Vol. XXXV. The Rev. John Fisher in Lives of thi British p. 81. Saints, Vol. Ill, p. 383, states that Bishop Maddox of St. Asaph (1736-43) in his MS. Book Z, in the Episcopal Library at St. Asaph, has under Llanmerewig, to S. Merewitiz, Wake Sunday after twelvth day." This is the only documentary evidence for a saint's name corresponding to the last two-thirds of the name Llanmerewig. It is neither early evidence, nor evidence hard of explanation, when we bear in mind that the Festival of S. Llwchaiarn, who is generally reckoned as the Patron Saint of Llanmerewig, is either on January 11th, or, as is more likely, at any rate, in the case of his two Montgomeryshire churches, on January 12th. Thus Bishop Maddox entered the